Practical File System Design

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1. adastra22Aug 2024
   Far better is the book by the creator of the filesystem: http://www.nobius.org/dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf
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2. vondurApr 2024
   Here's some info from gherkin0 back from June of 2016:

   gherkin0 on June 26, 2016 | next [–]

   > Fun fact: Dominic Giampalo (who wrote the BeOS file system) is on the APFS team. His book "Practical File System Design" is an excellent description of a traditional UNIX file system design. May be out of print now but I think used copies turn up on Amazon. It looks like he has a PDF up on his website: http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf

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3. in9Jul 2023
   Practical File System Design by Dominic Giampaolo

   File Systems: Structures and Algorithms by Harbor

   There is probably a relevant chapter on the The Linux Programming Interface on file systems as well.

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4. ridiculous_fishJul 2020
   A very accessible (though dated) intro to filesystems is Practical File System Design, by Dominic Giampaolo.

   PDF link: http://www.nobius.org/practical-file-system-design.pdf

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5. charlesdanielsJun 2020
   I'm glad to see Haiku is still making progress!

   I really enjoy the visual style of Haiku. The look-n-feel of it seems better to me than any other UI I've seen, and I say that as someone who never used BeOS, so it's not the nostalgia talking.

   It would be really cool if Haiku was able to get to a state were it's usable as a daily driver. I think having an OS and interface more focused on a single user at a graphical terminal rather than a multi-user system with graphics tacked on would be positive.

   BeFS also has some really great ideas that aren't replicated in other more modern FSes, namely it includes database-like functionality that enables some really neat features via a standardized interface, rather than hiding them away in vendor-specific file formats. If you're interested, Practical File System Design[0] uses beFS as it's example filesystem (and it's also a really good book in general).

   0 - https://www.amazon.com/Practical-System-Design-Dominic-Giamp...

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6. denimboyJan 2020
   The way BeOS used filesystem attributes like a database was way ahead of the curve and it still might be.

   This book was a great read back in the day of what goes into a "modern" filesystem design

      https://archive.org/details/practical-file-system-design
   

   "Practical File System Design" was technical but also readable. Straight from the man who designed BFS which makes it more of an accomplishment IMO.
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